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This quick terraform project sets up an EC2 instance, configures wireguard, generates the required keys (including a PSK) and provides the wireguard “Client” configuration. The code can be found here WARNING: Cloud network egress/throughput will incur costs which can vary from region to region. Purpose This terraform code (and associated template file containing a bash script) will create an EC2 instance which is running wireguard and can be used as a VPN endpoint....

Github Repo All the code required can be found in the github repo: github.com/edrandall-dev/kubernetes-on-ec2 Introduction Last year, when I was learning Kubernetes, I wanted to create my own cluster on AWS using EC2 instances. The idea behind this was go through the installation of Kubernetes from start to finish, learning everything I needed to along the way. I’ve also used Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to deploy Neo4j using the official Neo4j Helm Charts....

What is SaaS? Software as a Service (SaaS) is everywhere. Put simply, SaaS is way of providing an application that can be used directly over the internet. Typically, there’s no need to install anything on a computer, and all that’s usually required to get started (as a user) is a web browser. A huge number of people rely on SaaS applications everyday without giving it too much thought. Below are some examples of “everyday” SaaS products which are widely used:...

In this post, I will go over the steps needed to provision a Kubernetes cluster in AWS, and deploy a Neo4j cluster using Neo4j’s helm charts. This post takes steps from the official Neo4j Kubernetes Documentation Prerequisites An AWS Account Configured AWS Command Line Interface An SSH Key named id_rsa.pub. If you do not have one, you can generate it by running: ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]" Setting up a Kubernetes Cluster in EKS Installation of tools and applications In order to create a Kubernetes (EKS) cluster in AWS, you will need to download the following applications: kubectl...

My post on the neo4j blog explains how to get up and running with Neo4j using the AWS partner solution. AWS Partner Solutions (formerly known as AWS Quick Start) are pre-configured reference deployments that work seamlessly with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and follow AWS’s recommended design practices. They provide customers with a variety of deployment options for managing their workloads on AWS. Neo4j’s AWS Partner Solution for AWS is a quick and easy way to deploy a fully-managed Neo4j cluster on the AWS platform....

Recently, I had to re-visit an old architectural challenge in AWS that I came across a couple of years ago but couldn’t quite remember how to resolve: EC2 instances which have no public IP address (residing in a private subnet) which can accept requests from (and serve responses back to) the internet. The motivation for this particular topology is security focused: The EC2 instances cannot be directly addressed via the internet due to the absence of a public IP, but can serve (web, in this example) content over the internet using the load balancer....